Wheat Free Offerings Bring Reaction
Wheat trading was broad with early gains fading to losses as selling pressure emerged. Prices moved during the day with September around 1.24 to 1.25 dollars and December near 1.23 to 1.28, while oats and corn showed mixed early strength giving way to declines. Chicago cash quotes favored various wheat, corn, and oats grades, with mixed results across regions such as Omaha Peoria and St. Louis.
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Associated Preas
Chicago
Board’ of Trade
Zeloe
Seaboard
New York Produce Prices and Market News
New York supply prices show varied by item with butter and eggs fluctuating modestly, poultry and meats listed with current rates, and currency exchange and metals data. Other regional markets, including Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis, report price quotes for wheat, corn, oats, and livestock, alongside foreign exchange rates and government bonds.
Cattle and Hogs Steady with Latter Up in Chicago Trade
Cattle and hogs steady with hogs about 15 cents higher. Chicago market reports show cattle receipts around 4,000 with top yearlings near $10.70 and bulk steers $6.73 to $7.50. Hog receipts about 17,000, prices up to about $9.90 for heavy lighters and $9.65 for bulk. sows mixed and pigs lower. Sheep receipts near 10,000 with fat lambs steady to strong and top around $8.25. western lambs firm, ewes active near $2.25 to $2.50. Omaha meanwhile posts hogs steady to 15 cents higher, cattle steady to 15 cents lower, and sheep prices up about 25 cents.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Jarealy
Cullen
Receipts and Prices From RanBag City Livestock Sale
Receipts: cattle around steady with Oklahoma and Kansas steers mostly $4.40 to $7.00, one load calves at $7.75, a few good cows $5.23, most sales around $4.50, fleshy Kansas feeders over 1300 pounds at $7.00. Hogs: receipts 2000, weights 190 to 260 pounds: bulk $5.25 to $5.30, one load fancy 286 pounds at $5.59, larger hogs $8.85, packing sows and pigs weaker. Sheep: receipts 200, market limited, feeding lambs steady, best around $6.40.
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Susysas City
Cope
Oklahoma
Kansas
Siack
East St. Louis Livestock Market Slows Across Cattle Hogs and Sheep
Receipts at East St. Louis and Sioux City markets show mixed results with cattle generally steady to lower, hogs uneven with some declines, and sheep steady or unchanged. At St Louis, cattle and calves range with steers around four to five dollars, hogs see 8.50 to 9.55 top, and sheep steady though few head offer. Sioux City reports steady beef steers and steady to higher hogs with most sales around 5.25 to 9.25, while St Joseph notes steady cattle and lamb prices with calves and heifers around 4.00 to 9.75 and lambs near 7.00 to 8.28.
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Waterlso
Waterloo
Orange Creamery
Vernon
Woolesafe
ST. Louis
Itt
Mexican oil shares tumble at market open
New York stock market opens with Mexican oils sharply down amid talks between Mexican officials and American interests. Mexican Petroleum falls to 2.34 percent loss, Pan-American Petroleum down, and "B" stock down two. Foreign oils are mixed with General Asphalt and Royal Dutch gaining. Overall declines observed in the balance of the market.
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Associated Press
New York
Pan-American Petroleum
General Asphalt
Oy Pointe
Royal Dutch
Lospea
Mexican Petroleum
Olis
Shorts
Rallis and
Shippings
St. Paul
Mercantile Marine
Lang
American Beet
American Can
American Car & Foundry
American Locomotive
American Smelting
American Sumatra Tobacco
American T. & T
Anaconda Copper Atchison
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Oni
Bethlehem Steel Central Leather
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago
Mil
St Paul
Crucible Steel
General Motors
Great Northern Ore
Ctis
Goodrich Co
S.s
Mer
Marine Afd International Paper
Kennecott Copper
New York Central
Norfolk & Western - Northam Pact
Pennsylvania Rep
Iron & Steel Sinclair Cons
Oil & Refining
Southern Pacific Southern Railway
Studebaker Corporation
Texas Co
Tobagco Products
Union Pacific
United States
United States Steel
Utah Copper
Westinghouse Electric
Willys Overlana
American Woolen
Sue
Paul Davis
Harry Groote
Abie Pederson
Lake Constantine
BE. H. Allison
Montgomery
Maurice Pettit
McMinnville
Ore
Emma
Riebenstein
University Hospital
Iowa
Cit
Gedar Falls
Harry Cold
Former Conrad teacher killed in Des Moines
A Grundy Center report says Mrs. Clark McCall, formerly Miss Gricia Leasley a longtime Conrad Elementary teacher, was killed in a Des Moines automobile crash. The item notes several local movements, visits, and personnel changes, including staffing shifts, travel for Labor Day programs, and community updates from Reinbeck and nearby towns.
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Conrad
Des Moines
Grundy Center
Dra Moines
Clark McCall
McCall
Gricia Leasley
Harding Cream Company
Dew Moines
Tan
Hero
Chris Sparenorg
Women's Relief Corpa
Grundy Post
American Las Giun
Gay Scouts
M. B
E. Nalxen Ia
Wood
Nabsanes
Will Morrison
Ail la Vern
McKinley School
Waterloo
PL J
Roeder
Arnilda
Thelma
Cedar Rapids
Reeder
Andrew Meyer
West Bend
Grant Reed
Hansen
Dika
Card of
Hembeck
Wilbur Callaway
Welpine
Wool and markets tumble in mixed New England notes
The Commercial Bulletin notes wool demand falling off with some firms reporting steady price trade. London and Australian markets show upturns, while raw material demand slackens. Bond prices and cotton futures trend varied amid regional notices and local social events in Raymond and surrounding towns.
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Boston
Commercial 1
London
Farmers Questioan and Comments Invited
Readers are invited to send questions and comments to the Editor Farm Department of the Evening Courier and Reporter in Waterloo Iowa. Correspondence should be addressed to the Editor Farm Department and may include inquiries about farming topics. Phone 3230 provides contact for further information.
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Questioan
Farm Department
Evening Courier
Waterloo
Lows
Market Demands for Right Kinds of Horses
Wayne Tiins mite, secretary of the Horse Association of America, argues demand for farm work horses and mules exceeds supply. He cites 1920s figures, urges breeding of efficient market types, notes three market divisions for draught, farm utility, and general work horses, and discusses regional demand in the South, Northeast, and central West.
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Hy Wayne
Nsmoris
Horse Association of American
South Nemis
Wales
Central West
United States
Iowa State Fair Attendance Challenge Reflects Tough Economy
Des Moines reports the 67th Iowa state fair concludes amid attendance below prewar peaks though exhibits and exhibitors surpassed previous years. Officials expect total attendance near 300000, with last year at 383846 and 1919 at 408147, while the women and children’s building drew crowds and highlighted home work and youth club programs guided from Ames.
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Des Moines
Iowa
All County
Pew
Ames
Real Hard Times Found in Germany in Waverly Iowa
A letter from Germany details wage and price norms to illustrate wartime hardship. Hired workers earn 4000 marks yearly, a hired girl 3000, daily rates for a factory band 25 marks, while the writer with leg wounds gets 18 marks daily. Clothes cost 1400 marks, a hat 400, a shirt lacking price, socks priced, and a cap 25. Horses once 2000 marks now 40000, cows 250 to 20000, hogs 3000. Prewar mark value near 24 cents, now about 1.34 cents. County horse-shoe contest honors go to Ringgold, Powesbiek, and Polk counties with Frank and Carroll Jackson of Kellerton top Ringgold. Polk wins ag exhibit lead. Polk decorates Iowa building at San Francisco exposition with Fred Heathershaw’s Horn of Plenty art.
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Waverly
Boedecker
Germany
Ringgold County
Powesbiek
Polk
Frank Jackson
Carrol
Kellerton
Jackson
Polk County
Guthr
West Pottawattamie
Fred Heathershaw
Iowa
Its all in knowing how farmer gets S670 from less than acre
In Janesville on Sept 2 a farmer cleared $678.80 from three quarters of an acre of sandy land selling 2,236 watermelons at an average 30 cents, leaving 606 to 600 melons unsold. another note mentions Herman Bartling selling 360 bushels of potatoes at $2 per bushel to net $800 from seven acres.
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Janesville
Herman Bartling
Seed Melon Yields 540 Pounds From One Plant
Independence Iowa Sept 2 report notes a melon seed planted on Oren Wright farm southeast of Quasqueton produced 12 large melons weighing at least 45 pounds each for a total of 540 pounds.
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Independence
Oren Wright
Quasqueton
Hogs Under Six Months Ready for Market Near Independence
Fred Kelley of near Independence raises Hampshire hogs with 27 head. Within six months several pigs averaged 178 pounds and were market ready. Last Wednesday these pigs sold on the open market for eight dollars fifty cents per hundredweight. Some pigs served as feeders.
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Independence
Fred Kelley
Hampshire
Local Iowa scholars to receive special diplomas
Frederika Fraderika and others were named state scholars and will receive special diplomas signed by Iowa’s governor the U S commissioner of education and the state superintendent. School began Aug 29 with Prof J J Hurwitz and Miss Helelah Lamba as speakers. A car crash near Sumner injured several young women. Leola Golding remained under care after being pinned under the vehicle. A lightning strike burned the Ed Bohemler farm west of town.
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Fraderika
Macieda Zwenziger
Donald Goldwig
Iowa
U.S
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Monta
J. J. Hurwitz
Helelah Lamba
Waverly
Johnnie Rourke
Waverly Hospital
Nada
Leela Golding
Ruth Maas
Sumner
Miss Leola
Dr. Reiff
Miss Nada
Leola
Aurten
Miss Maas
David Lundberg
Cldren
Rockford
Tweek
Kazel Ager
Goiteling
Otte Mente
Menit
Snevatorn
Ed Bohemler
Clyde
Archie¢ Clary
Geneseo Notes Highlight Local Events and Appointments
In Geneseo and nearby, the Ladies Aid plans a Nazar event on September 15 led by Mrs Fear Smith and daughter leanor. W Stautler hosted a miscellaneous shower for Miss Luane Ward. The school board hires Frank Smock of Cedar Rapids as janitor. The Standard Bearers schedule a church program Friday evening.
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Geneseo
Ladies | Aid Society
Fear Smith
Leanor
Marion
LGC
W. Stautler
Luane
Ward
Frank Smock
Cedar Rapids
Delaware County Fair Ranks Well
Manchester Iowa September 2 The Delaware county fair closes as one of Iowa’s largest county fairs featuring exhibitors from nine counties. Thousands pass through gates while 865 hogs 25 cattle 19 horses 21 poultry and four sheep compete for championships. The fair offers strong entertainment with fourteen acts and a full race program to complement the livestock and agricultural displays.
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Paul Stewart
Maynard
Des Moines
Gleime
Iowa
Arlington
Stewart
Sherman Bros
Jesup
Mead & Weyand
Greene
Lloyd Loonan
Hudson
Altho W. H. Brown
Waterloo
E. W. Stevenson
Ames
Duroc
Delaware
Buchanan
Black Hawk
Linn
Clayton
Hesa
Worthington
G. W. Shanks
Chester
Manchester
Delaware Fair
Carni
One Farmer Tires of Farm and Another Is Tired of Retiring
In Clarksville Iowa a trade occurs where Henry Pats swaps his farm for Henry Wedeki’s 100 acre property in Fremont shipping. The deal values the farm at 175 dollars per acre and final ownership transfers as scheduled. A separate note reports chicken thieves in Aureate Iowa taking 260 birds from chicken pens. Gilbertville locals recount Sunday visits and relatives gathering for funeral services in Manning with several families traveling from Delagardelle and Webber households.
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Hangchow
China
Mane
Harry Verley
Ra Verley
Reinbeck
E.G Sister
R.L. Anderson
Grinnell
Schaffer Theatre
Dee
Brasted
Baby
Des Moines
Bradsted
Theo. Souers
Henry Klichenstain
Plattsville
Wis
E. A. Crary
Charles City
Lucy Buckman
Hay Morrison
Watterloo
Louis Murphy
Belle Piette
Clarksville
Henry Pats
Clarkeville
Henry Wedeki
Fremoship
Gilbertville
Gilbertvilla
Weber
Delagardelle
Len
John Delagardela Mir
John Webber
Waterind
Pete Mangrich
Frank Delagardelle
Nick Hubarty
Quisiion
Frank Tester
Private Farm Sale Near Waterloo Offers Cattle and Jeans
A private sale near Waterloo lists livestock and goods including young bulls red cattle and jeans. The notice cites a location two miles east of Hudson and is attributed to Lloyd J. Loonan of Waterloo on February.
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Ee - Farm
Ami
Waterloo
Mi. E
Hudson
Lloyd J. Loonan
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